“I have always felt that adventures are about connection and daring, albeit my traditional view was that it was a solitary quest and one where fears were stuffed down to be tamed alone. I would say that my learning to express and connect in vulnerable times has been my greatest and most perilous, daring journey of all. And the most empowering.”
Source: Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination
“The king worths for nothing, without a Queen leading the way.”
Source: Atnomen
“It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected.”
Source: Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
“A journal is a self-empowering, self-realizing map we create for ourselves to better our lives.”
Source: Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons
“Wise acceptance does not mean we like the situation; it means we have stopped denying it, have stopped being victims of it, have stopped blaming others for it, and are now prepared to improve it.”
“I was not innocent, and I had tired of the pretence of being so, though it had amused me for a time.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attachment to the result. It was valuing guts more than the win”
Source: Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
“Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than you yourself.”
Source: Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
“At the core, making space for creativity traces back to permission, to the idea that feeding our souls is not a waste. Creativity is not a waste of time, or money, or resources. It’s not a waste of space in our schedules, our minds, our homes. If you view creativity as a selfish act, you will always struggle to justify making time for it. If you believe pursuing creativity is self-serving, it’s going to be the first thing you cut from your life in busy seasons.”
Source: Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood
“Determination drove him to melt her heart; or failing that, shatter it into a million icicles. Either way, she would be his.”
Source: Winter's Mother 1